Word: mirandas
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...started with a massive but peaceful meeting at Plaza Miranda, where 40,000 students, peasants and workers were trying unsuccessfully to organize a united front for future political action. Egged on by a labor leader's well-worn charge that the CIA was out to control the Philippine labor movement, some 2,000 of the demonstrators set off for the U.S. embassy. They managed to smash windows for about 45 minutes until Filipino riot police arrived belatedly and dispersed them...
...Rulings by Traynor entitled both sides to examine one another's evidence before a criminal trial. Traynor's court also obliged state and local police to warn a suspect that he has a right to silence and counsel. In 1966, the Supreme Court followed suit in Miranda v. Arizona...